Wild Horse-1 info, updated1 Oct 2018 12:46
Updated and useful for newbies.
Well Name: Wild Horse-1 Block IV
Targeting 480 million barrels recoverable (mid case) 100% owned
Geological Chance of Success (Pg) = 20% for WH-1
Additional follow on prospects of 750 million barrels rec. (900 million rec. high case) derkisked in the Wild Horse area if Wild Horse-1 is a success.
Wild Horse-2 appraisal well already permitted for, in the event of success.
Due to analogous basin geology across the border in China there is a higher than frontier chance of success for frontier levels of potential
Notable Chinese productive basins include: Junggar Basin 10 Billion barrels recoverable, Songliao Basin 20 Billion barrels recoverable and Bohai-S. North China Basin with 40 Billion barrels recoverable.
Well defined 4-way dip structure and amplitude anomalies that are indicative of hydrocarbons. (Soft amplitude anomalies which conform to structure)
CEO Mike Buck comments that it is “A must drill well”.
Royal Dutch Shell have told MATD they want to see Wild Horse-1 drilled.
Endorsed by Wood Mackenzie by their inclusion of Wild Horse-1 on their “one to watch wells in 2018” placing Petro Matad on a list alongside super majors like ENI and Repsol. The only onshore well to make it into the WoodMac list.
Spud late October 2019. Estimated 30 days to drill and log (up to 45 if delays)
Sinopec state 25 days to get to TD ( www.dailymotion.com/video/x6u32kz )
** PSC terms (the important bit to value any discovery with)
0% Corporation Tax (yes 0%)
Royalty: Block IV 8%
Costs of Exploration, Development, Operations and Transport can be recovered in the success case. The implication for this is that on any success, when coming to arrange finance, this puts the company in a very strong position as it can demonstrate it can repay debt out of Gross revenue rather than profits. Yes, that is remarkably excellent, even transportation costs to sell the oil are recoverable. Pretty much WOW.......... The whole lot, explo, dev, op, transport...all recoverable.
Contractor Profit oil split: Block IV 50% to 57%
A mere 150 million barrel recoverable size find on Block IV for MATD would have an NPV10 of 1.27 billion US$ thanks to low cost of development wells, easy trucking and very good PSC terms ** (that value will be higher now due to rising oil prices)
NPV10 based on Economics run at Dec ‘17 Forward Curve prices: 2018 $63.67/bbl, 2019 $60.58, 2020 $58.56, 2021 $57.62, 2022 $57.25, 2023 $57.22, 2024+ 2% Esc